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What was one of the first mental institutions? Who created it?

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Our Lady of Bethlehem. Henry VIII

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What is the “biopsychosocial perspective”?

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Human being inside the body inside the social situation

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What happened to psychiatric care during the renassiance?

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Strong swing towards science

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What happened to psychology during the Reformation?

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Backsliding back to religious therapy

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What happened to psychology during the Enlightenment period?

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A strong swing towards compassionate care, advances in medicine, germ theory,

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In the 1960’s, the idea of deinstitutionalizing patients led to what?

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Severe patients being given medication and being released, only to not take their medications.

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What are the 3 essential features of therapy?

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Sufferer, Healer, Series of contact

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Modern problems cause what?

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Modern phobias and anxiousness

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Hippocrates taught that illnesses have _________

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natural causes

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What is “Tarantism”?

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When groups of people suddenly start to jump, dance, and go into convulsions

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What is Lycanthropy?

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People think they are possessed by wolves or other animals

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Who was the first physician to specialize in mental illness?

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John Weyer

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Where was the first colony of mental patients?

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Gheel, Belgium

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Where was the first site of asylum reform?

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La Bicetre, Paris

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What did moral treatment emphasize?

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Moral guidance and humane and respectful techniques

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Who was the father of American Psychology?

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Benjamin Rush

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Who lobbied for government oversight and moral treatment?

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Dorothea Dix

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What were the factors that led to the decline of moral treatment?

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  • Speed at which the movement had spread
  • Assumption that all patients could be cured if treated humanely
  • As more people disappeared into the asylums, more people viewed them as dangerous
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What is the somatogenic perspective?

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The view that abnormal psychological functioning has physical causes

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What is the Perpsychogenic perspective?

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View that chief causes of abnormal functioning are psychological

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What were the 2 factors that caused the rebirth of the somatogenic perspective?

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  • Emil Kraepelin published a book stating that some physical problems can lead to dysfunction
  • New biological discoveries
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What is Psychoanalysis?

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the belief that unconscious psychological processes are at the root of psychogenic problems.

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What is the nomothetic approach?

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General understanding of nature, causes, and treatments of abnormality

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What are the limitations of case studies?

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  • Reported by biased observers
  • Rely on subjective evidence
  • Provide little basis for generalization
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Models and theories are sets of what?
assumptions
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You can't say a theory is wrong. What can you say?
The theory is not useful to you or is not supported by evidence
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What is an example of a psychoanalytic model?
Neo-Freudian
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What is an example of a behaviorist model?
cognitive-behavioral
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What is an example of a humanist model?
Existential-humanism
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What is an example of a socioculture model
Family systems
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What is the most complicated system?
Neo-Freudian
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What are the characteristics of Neo-Freudian?
``` Id-ego-superego Early development Unconscious Inevitable conflict Pessimistic ```
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What are the characteristics of cognitive-behavioral?
- Thoughts create feelings - Mediate behavior - Rational thoughts are usually more adaptive
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Ego will feel overwhelmed by what?
Id impulses
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Ego will feel nagging from what?
Superego
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What are 4 main examples of defense mechanisms?
repression, projection, denial, rationalization
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What is the upside of defense mechanisms?
helps ego stay in charge
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What is the downside of defense mechanisms?
distorts reality
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What is transference?
Projecting issues that we have with other people in our relationships
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What is classical conditioning?
Pairs-association
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What is Operant conditioning?
All possible consequences fit into one of three categories: positive or negative reinforcement, or punishment
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Reinforcement=?
reward
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What is the problem with operant conditioning?
Our frontal lobes allow us to interpret the reward
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What does Humanistic/Existential say?
Your life is what it is...what are you going to do about it?
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What are the assumptions of Humanistic/existential?
People are intrinsically healthy and prosocial. Pathology results from unhealthy environments.
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What are the goals of Humanistic/existential therapy?
- Reconnect to one's needs and healthy instincts - Give homework to make changes - Will help clarify, but it's up to the person to make the changes - Provide safe, supportive environment - Let the client's valus and needs guide therapy
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What are some techniques for therapy in humanistic/existential?
- Supportive and mostly nondirective - Don't dwell on the past - Clients are encouraged to live more fully in the present - With freedom comes responsibility - Reflection and clarification
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Humanists think of the person they are working with as a _____, not a _____
Client, not a patient
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What is "Accurate Empathy" and who came up with it?
"Respect the person as they are" - Carl Rodgers
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In the "Family (systems) therapy", problem behavior reflects what?
a problem in the entire family system
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What is the symptomatic member of the family called?
Identified patient
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If the equilibrium of the system does not change, what can happen?
The identified patient will probably relapse
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Behaviors of the identified patient are what?
An adjustment to the system
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What are the goals of a family systems therapist?
- Identify the structure of the family - Identify the roles different family members play - Help the family reconfigure in a healthier way
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What are the techniques of a family systems therapist?
- Reinforce the authority of the parents - Improve communication among members - Provide opportunities for new ways of interacting - Validate everyone's contribution to problem-solving
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What does "eclectic" mean?
Borrowing the best of all models
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Depending on your theory, how do you get the information that you need?
1) Interviews | 2) Psychological testing
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How long should an interview take?
30-45 minutes to get their version of what's going on
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What should you do during an interview?
- Ask questions | - Find out if there is a "precipitating event"
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What are some types of psychological testing?
- Self-report measures | - Free association testing
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What are some types of self-report measures?
-Likert scales
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What are some types of Likert scales?
Depression scale, behavioral-observations scale, anxiety and panic disorder scales
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What does a likert scale measure?
frequency, intensity, duration
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What is "social desirability"?
When somebody recognizes when something about them sounds bad, and they will claim it's not that bad.
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What are the standards for psychological testing?
validity and reliability
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What is free association testing looking for?
patterns and defense mechanisms
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NGRI is what kind of term?
legal, not clinical
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NGRI has to do with their mental state when?
At the time of the crime
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How many people get the insanity plea?
Less than a quarter of the 1% who try to get it.
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What is the M'Naughten Standard?
Showing that somebody did not understand the wrongfulness of what they were doing
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What is the Durham standard?
Showing a person has a mental disease or defect
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What is the Irresistable Impulse standard?
They cannot help what they do
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Most people that get NGRI have what?
Chronic schizophrenia
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What is guilty but mentally ill?
There is a mental problem that contributed to the crime, but it doesn't completely explain it.
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To be able to force commit somebody, they have to be considered what?
A danger to themselves or others
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Clinicians say that if you are potentially suicidal, you are also what?
Potentially homicidal
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Doctors can commit a person for how long involuntary?
48-72 hours
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Judges can commit a person involuntarily for how long?
up to several weeks
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What is "Duty to warn"?
If there is an identifiable potential victim, you have a legal responsibility to break confidentiality and inform law enforcement and the victim
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Competency to stand trial refers to a person's mental state when?
At that moment
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How can you measure a person's competency to stand trial?
- Do they understand the charges against them? | - Is their mental state such that they are able to cooperate in their defense?
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What is civil commitment?
forcing an involuntary treatment
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What will you get from correlational studies?
The direction and strength/consistency of a pattern

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